Joel on Software - “The Perils of
JavaSchools” - Fortune

Joel on Software - “The Perils of
JavaSchools”

The most sympathetic interpretation of why CS departments are so
enthusiastic to dumb down their classes is that it leaves them more
time to teach actual CS concepts, if they don’t need to spend two
whole lectures unconfusing students about the difference between,
say, a Java int and an Integer. Well, if that’s the case, 6.001 has
the perfect answer for you: Scheme, a teaching language so simple
that the entire language can be taught to bright students in about
ten minutes; then you can spend the rest of the semester on fixed
points. Feh.